Sports Officer

— Rod Trott

Sportsmen and women may feel well satisfied with Vic's effort in finishing runner-up to Otago in Easter Tournament held at Massey. Otago traditionally has a very powerful team—particularly so in Athletics and swimming." Third behind Vic in overall points was Auckland followed by Canterbury and Massey.

As far as individual sports were concerned Vic was overall winner in shooting, rowing and yachting and also finished well up in Volleyball, Tennis and Swimming. For the first time Surfing was held as an invitation sport and from all accounts was most successful with Vic finishing second equal. It was most unfortunate that the cricket had to be cancelled due to the fact that the teams from South Island Universities were on the Wahine. It did seem at one stage that the whole of Tournament may have been disrupted by the Wahine disaster but alternative arrangements were able to be made for the transport of Southern teams to Massey.

The next major event on the sporting calendar is Winter Tournament which is to be staged by Vic this year. As usual it will be held in the first week of the August holidays (12-17th August). The Tournament Controller is Chris Corry and organization is already well under way.

In addition to the sports usually held the possibility of holding gymnastics as an invitation sport is being looked into. This does however raise the point that because of the large number of sports which are or wish to be included in Winter Tournament it may be necessary soon to examine the structure of Winter Tournament as it could become too large and unwieldy for one University to administer.